Seven families of practice, one path.
What do we do with sexual harm, if not police, prisons, or silence? This is the long answer: the families of practice communities already use to hold danger, need, grief, accountability, and repair. Each family gathers ways of responding; the practices inside are named plainly so you can recognize what you may already be doing.
Safety planning
How we respond to danger and make room for life again.
- Risk assessment
- Pod mapping & safety networks
- Relational harm reduction
- Violence interruption & de-escalation
- Crisis response networks
- Stabilization support
Boundaries & needs
Saying what we need, and protecting each other's limits.
- Needs-based communication
- Feedback literacy
- Relational boundary support
- Embodied consent education
- Power & role mapping
Accompaniment
Walking with someone. Staying near while they go through something hard.
- Witnessing & presence
- Accountability companionship
- Circles of support & accountability
- Transformative pairing
- Spiritual companionship
- Long-term accompaniment
Affinity practices
Being with people who've been through something like what you've been through, so no one has to translate.
- Healing circles
- Circles for those who have experienced harm
- Circles for those who have caused harm
- Circles for those holding both
- Grief circles
- Family & supporter circles
- Identity-based circles
- Cross-affinity circles
Dialogue practices
Talking directly, with support, about harm: after safety, after readiness, never before.
- Direct dialogue
- Surrogate processes
- Shuttle processes
- Family group dialogue
- Community accountability & truth circles
- Accountability & amends-making
Integration practices
Letting change settle in, and carrying what we learned forward.
- Meaning making & reflection
- Accountability maintenance
- Community reflection circles
- Ritual & commemoration
- Archiving & story transmission
Visionary practices
Imagining, and remembering, what else is possible.
- Cultural organizing
- Advocacy & collective voice
- Art & creative expression
- Pleasure education & activism
- Collective dreaming & visioning
Each practice has a fuller sheet, with what it looks like in a room and questions to sit with, on the Practices page at insearchofpeace.one. The We Begin curriculum grows from the same seven families.
Open what draws you; leave the rest for another day. Every practice is an invitation, never a requirement.